Western Mines Group Ltd. updated shareholders on the commencement of a maiden drilling program at the Rock of Ages Project. WMG has contracted JDC Drilling to undertaken a maiden drilling program at the Company's Rock of Ages Project. The drill rig and WMG team are currently mobilising to site for drilling to commence over the weekend. An initial 800m program has been designed to test the extensive trend of historical shafts and workings, with 6 holes ranging from 100m to 170m depth targeting high-grade gold shoots or lodes beneath the main central workings. A second Program of Work has recently been granted to facilitate an expansion of the program if necessary. The historical Rock of Ages workings, consist of a series of shallow mine shafts and workings over approximately 600m strike, associated with quartz veining and ferruginous cherts, within felsic volcanic schists. Historical records indicate 2,074oz Au was mined from the workings between 1902 and 1911 at an average grade of 50g/t Au. This will be the first program to properly test the depth potential of the high-grade gold mineralization since a poor attempt by Esmeralda Exploration in the 1980's. Esmeralda drilled 7 holes to a maximum depth of 50m and average depth of 42m but this drilling was largely ineffective, either encountering mined out stopes down to a vertical depth of approximately 35m or ending in the hanging wall before reaching the target mineralised horizon. WMG has planned a 6 hole program totalling 800m designed to test beneath the main central cluster of shafts and workings and area of extensive mullock dumps. The holes will range from 100m to 170m depth targeting an inferred sub-vertical mineralised horizon dipping towards the west. This initial program is anticipated to take 5 to 7 days to complete.